How to associate a softphone with a phone url

Question

I'm trying to get click to call to work using Qutecom for a softphone and a Greesemonkey script to turn phone numbers into clickable urls. Whenever I click on the phone number link I get an error message saying the following:

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (tel) isn't associated with any program.

How would I go about associating Qutecom, or any other softphone, with that link? The Greasemonkey scribt can be found at the link below:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56262

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Under Windows, you can create a new protocol using the Registry Editor:

 Start / Run / regedit

Look for the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive, and create a new series of keys with the following structure:

 tel\shell\open\command

At the tel level, edit the (Default) string, and change its value to URL:tel Protocol Again at the tel level, add a new string called URL Protocol and no value.

Then at the command level, edit the (Default) string, and in the value section, enter the command you want to execute:

 c:\path\to\telephone\application.exe %1

The %1 will be replaced by whatever is placed after the tel: sequence, ie, the phone number.

And that should do it.

Under Ubuntu

This might be version specific, but the following should work:

gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/tel/command "/path/to/telephone/application %s"
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/tel/needs_terminal false -t bool
gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/tel/enabled true

In this case the %s will be replaced by the phone number.

In the case of qutecom, it appears that the Windows command line should be:

"c:\program files\qutecom\qutecom.exe" -c call\%1

(adjust for your installation location, and try this from a dos prompt first, replacing %1 with a phone number)